Robots to wipe out 20 million jobs around the world by 2030: Study

2019-07-05T15:43:12+00:00

Robots to wipe out 20 million jobs around the world by 2030: Study SINGAPORE - Up to 20 million manufacturing jobs will be lost globally to robots by 2030, a new study has found. And the displacement of jobs will not be evenly spread around the world, or within countries, according to the study published on Wednesday (June 26) by Oxford Economics, a UK-based research firm. Lower-skilled regions, which tend to have weaker economies and already-high unemployment rates, are much more vulnerable to the job losses, it said after surveying seven economies including the United States, Germany, [...]